CM1995
Administrator
- Joined
- Jan 21, 2007
- Messages
- 13,418
- Location
- Alabama
- Occupation
- Running what I brung and taking what I win
Full belly laugh on this -
https://www.equipmentworld.com/tech...2b831b1dbd328e34c1&oly_enc_id=9675D4235256A4S
From the article -
So now we can hire gamers that haven't left their moms basement since birth to run equipment and it only takes 20 mins to get up and running - solved our labor shortage! I'm sure all the non-marked and unknown underground utilities will be well defined on the virtual reality screen.
Technology has its place and is a wonderful thing as we just invested in GPS automation. There are applications for remote and autonomous equipment such as mines and other control environment situations. I've read where compactors will be one of the first autonomous machines on conventional job sites and I think it will work well since compaction is a controlled process in a well defined area. Actually I would love to have one. Take a typical pad fill type job. Dozer operator sets the work area for the roller and dispatches it as the fill goes down where the roller follows the dozer across the lift.
However it's the tech types that obviously have never worked on a construction job site trying to automate things they do not understand that won't work. Someone sitting in a cubical miles away running an excavator on a commercial job site in virtual reality is a recipe for disaster.
https://www.equipmentworld.com/tech...2b831b1dbd328e34c1&oly_enc_id=9675D4235256A4S
From the article -
“You can learn the SRI system in 20 minutes and be digging,” he says. “…Because the controls are so much more intuitive, it doesn't require nearly as much muscle memory to perform it.”
So now we can hire gamers that haven't left their moms basement since birth to run equipment and it only takes 20 mins to get up and running - solved our labor shortage! I'm sure all the non-marked and unknown underground utilities will be well defined on the virtual reality screen.
Technology has its place and is a wonderful thing as we just invested in GPS automation. There are applications for remote and autonomous equipment such as mines and other control environment situations. I've read where compactors will be one of the first autonomous machines on conventional job sites and I think it will work well since compaction is a controlled process in a well defined area. Actually I would love to have one. Take a typical pad fill type job. Dozer operator sets the work area for the roller and dispatches it as the fill goes down where the roller follows the dozer across the lift.
However it's the tech types that obviously have never worked on a construction job site trying to automate things they do not understand that won't work. Someone sitting in a cubical miles away running an excavator on a commercial job site in virtual reality is a recipe for disaster.